The Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana on Thursday, February 28, 2013 joined other global experts in Washington for a live-streamed conversation about the role of technology in a “smarter future.”
The event was part of the World Bank’s ICT Solutions Day, which engaged decision makers and experts in an open, collaborative process of developing ICT-enabled approaches to development challenges.
Nsengimana pointed out that Rwanda moved in last 5 years from 2% to 53% phone penetration. He further said that ICT for development agenda must show job creation across the country.
“There’s a limit to the number of jobs we can create as a government … there’s no limit to the jobs other people can create in the right environment,” – he stressed while highlighting what Rwanda is doing in promoting entrepreneurship and innovation.
Explaining about Smart Village, Nsengimana said that Rwanda should start from Smart Villages and then scale to the whole country and continent.
He added that Rwanda has all preconditions to benefit from Smart Development solutions.
Nsengimana also told ICT experts that Rwanda has adopted ICT literacy and awareness campaign led by private sector with entertainment where citizen provide feedback on services they receive.
In this event ICT global experts discuss on the Crowd-Sourcing Solutions for a Smarter Future Using Technology and Open Innovation.
Other participants in this event are Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer, United States; Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Sustainable Development, World Bank; Edward Omane Boamah, Minister of Communications, Ghana; Bikesh Kurmangaliyeva, Deputy Chairperson of the Board, “Zerde” National ICT Holding, Kazakhstan; Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Africa region, World Bank; Vinzon Manansala, Chief of Systems Development and Maintenance Division, Department of Budget and Management, Government of Phillipines; Eddy Ampié, Ingerio del proyecto de telecomunicaciones rurales UCP TELCOR, Nicaragua and Andrew Stott, former CTO and Deputy CIO, UK Government.
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